move towards using gopkg.in

[roger peppe]

On 7 Jul 2014 22:03, "Tim Penhey" <tim.penhey at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/07/14 09:00, Ian Booth wrote:
> >>
> >> gopkg.in is a decent solution to this problem, I believe, and
> >> a good direction to head in general.
> >>
> >> After discussion with (and approval by) several juju-core members,
> >> we have pushed the new API to gopkg.in/juju/charm.v2 (the
> >> code now lives in the "v2" branch at github.com/juju/charm).
> >> The changeover has been no problem. We have been
> >> able to change the charm store and juju-core at our leisure,
> >> and we have avoided knowingly breaking any external code too.
> >>
> >> It has been pointed out to me that we have not raised
> >> this issue on the mailing list yet. This is me doing that :-)
> >>
> >> If there are any people that think that this is a bad idea, or
> >> that we should be doing it differently, please speak up now.
> >>
> >
> > I'm somewhat wary of depending on an another "unknown" third party
website being
> > available for our stuff to work. Of course, we also depend already on
github and
> > launchpad etc etc so maybe the point is moot.
> >
> > I still can't see how we can do away with godeps. The gopkg.in solution
may
> > solve the api versioning issue at a macro level, but without godeps we
still
> > won't get repeatable builds, which is a key requirement for proper
configuration
> > management.
>
> I agree.  Godeps (or similar alternative tool) is still needed and
> orthogonal to the versioned API imports.

I agree too. Both tools have their role to play.

As for additional dependencies on gopkg.in, we are already committed to
using some of  Gustavo's repositories, which have already moved to using
that root, so I don't think it will be much of an additional problem for us
to use it ourselves.

  cheers,
     rog.

>
> Tim
>
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